Cotton-picking device.



G. VHGENT. COTTON PI'GKING DRY/.ICB APPLIUATIQN FILED uuml, 1924.

atented Feb. 16, 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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T0 all who/n t may concern Be it known that i, GEORGE H. Vrnonav'r,

a citizen of the United States, residingr at Velty, in the county ofOkfuskee, State of 4 Oklahoma3 have invented certain new and.

useful Improvements in yCotton-Picking Devices; and I do hereby declarethe ollovving to be a full, clear, and exact description o theinvention,'snch as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to cotton pickingdevices.

The object of the invention resides in the provision of a device oi thecharacter named adapted to be vWorn on the hand and which willfacilitate the operation of picking the cotton and in addition protectthe hand of the user.

A further object of the invention. resides in the provision of a cottonpicking device which will be simple in construction, easily applied toand removed from the hands, and

which can be manufactured at a compara tively small coste With theabove' and other objects in View the inventionv consists in the detailsof construction and in 'the arrangement and cornbination, of parts to behereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in theappended claims.

In describing the invention indetail reference will be had to theaccompanying drawings wherein like characters' or' refer ence Vdenotecorresponding parts in the several views, and in Whichv Figure l is aperspective view showing the device applied to the-hand; Fig. 2, aperspective view of the device detached; Fig. 3, a perspective lview ofone of the clamping elements of-the device, and Fig. li, a plan`view ofone of the iierible strips of the device before a clamping element isattached thereto.

Referring-,to the drawings the improved cotton picking device is shownas comprising a flexible Wrist band 10 provided With a buckle 11 wherebysame may be easily applied to and removed from the Wrist.

The device further embodies four finger strips 12 having their innerends attached to the Wrist band'l() and provided respectively Withlongitudinal openings.r 13. Secured to the free end of each finger strip12 is a clamping member A which includes a Y ring body portion le havingan extension 15 on one end thereof and said extension beingfprovided onone end with a laterally bent portion 16. Formed on the side et' theextension 15 remote from the ring body le is a lug-17 having its outerend roughened or serrated asat 18. The ring body 14: is provided. withclenching fingers 19 which engaged through the outer end of a fingerstripl l2 and then clenchedto secure the clamping member to the fingerstrip as clearly shown in the drawing.

In applying the device the band i0 is li-rst secured to the vvrist andthe strips 12 carried over the backs of the first three fingers of thehand and the thumb respectively,4

the'ends or' the fingers and thumb being en gaged through the ringbodies le and against the inner sides of respective exten-1 sions l5.with the hands it will be obvious that the cotton can be picked Withfacility by clamp ing .same between the lug 18 carried by the thumb andthe lugs 18 carried by the i'ingers. It will be further obvious that theopenings 13 will permit movement ofthe thumb and 'lingers withoutpossibility of rendering the strips l2 taut.

What is claimed is 1 1. A cotton picking device comprising a pluralityci' Iringer strips feach having at one end a linger receiving memberprovided with a gripping device on what constitutes its inner face inuse, each of said strips being slotted adjacent to the finger receivingmember in position to receive the second joint of the linger when inuse1 and means connecting the other ends of the strips and adapted forholding them in position upon the backs oi. the fingers of an operatorwith the gripping devices disposed on the inside of the lingers.

2. A cotton picking device comprising a plurality flexible stripsadapted to be lpositioned along the back of the thumb and fingers, saidstrips being provided with openings through Which the thumb and iingersare adapted to Work, rings secured to said strips at one end andengageable over the thumb and fingers respectively, and extensions onthe outer ends of said rings po sitioned to be disposed against and onthe inside of the thumb and fingers respectively With the device thusassociata-:dy

' when the device is in place, and means connecting the other ends ofthe strips and ends of said vringe, endl'studs on said extfesion'sfhavngserra'ced.v outer ends. said extensions and st'us being poitoned so aste be disposed on the melde ofthe @web and fingers when the devlce 1s mplace;

11 testimony whereof, I afx my signe lture, m the presence of twowltnesees.

GEGRGE HLLARD VINCENT Ytnessee:

4ALBERI* R. BURRIS, COLUMBUS H. OH'NSON.

